Were you offering a significant amount of money to use their property? If not, what is their incentive to be responsive to you? Can't imagine they would have any interest in photos of a neighboring building, unless they happen to own or manage it as well.

"Photography is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent moving furniture." Arnold Newman“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” William Faulkner

Spent yesterday and today (and going back tonight and a day next week) in the new Ben Franklin Museum in Philly. The interior designer (out of London) needs a couple asap, so I just worked on this one.

"Photography is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent moving furniture." Arnold Newman“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” William Faulkner

I'm interested to hear your experiences in colour balancing these. Did you use any supplementary lights?

We light the inside of this model with tungsten balanced LED's and there was strobes gelled to tungsten lighting the exterior - not totally balanced.If anyone is interested, the model maker is www.scaleart.caThey also work in the US and are amazingly talented.

Hello Sean, thanks for the compliments. Both shots were captured with a P45+ on an Arca Swiss using a SK 35mm lens with the CF. I was shooting at f/11 for both. The first shot that I posted was a little hairy and complicated, so get ready.

This was an office interior in an old building; most of the walls where white and helped a lot. I used 6 strobes and two hot lights for this image. For strobes, I placed one at the left of camera bouncing off of the wall, one at the right of the camera bouncing into that little out cove. I had one directly above the camera with a 30 degree grid projecting into the shot. A fourth was placed behind that out cove bouncing off of the wall on the right. Fifth one was reflecting out of an umbrella by the cubicles. The last one was behind were the chairs are, bouncing off of the floor and kitchen area. All strobes were gelled with 1/2 CTO; the strobe with the grid also had a full diffusion gel behind the grid. The hot lights were hitting the chair to the right and the group of chairs in front of the camera. When I work with strobes, I balance the shot as much as I can at ISO 200. Then throw on a device that allows me to control manually the length of the exposure, sync the pocket wizards to the Copal shutter and drop the ISO to 50. This allows me to do multiple exposures. I do not remember the shutter speed, but this shot was 6 multiple exposures (I think, it could have been 5) at ISO 50.

"Photography is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent moving furniture." Arnold Newman“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” William Faulkner

"Photography is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent moving furniture." Arnold Newman“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” William Faulkner

"Photography is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent moving furniture." Arnold Newman“Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” William Faulkner

Joe I think I haven't understood your method ... can you explain it better end tell us what's the advantage of it? thank you very muchMarco

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... When I work with strobes, I balance the shot as much as I can at ISO 200. Then throw on a device that allows me to control manually the length of the exposure, sync the pocket wizards to the Copal shutter and drop the ISO to 50. This allows me to do multiple exposures. I do not remember the shutter speed, but this shot was 6 multiple exposures (I think, it could have been 5) at ISO 50.